Terra Racing Stables’ FASHIONABLY FAB put a bow on a super 2024 campaign as a four-year-old with a hard-fought win in the 49th La Prevoyante Stakes for Ontario-sired fillies and mares.
The daughter of Silent Name (Jpn) from Terra Farms’ mare Flashy’s Legacy by Curlin won on pure heart as she was a couple of lengths behind a very slow pace set by longshot Fortyfiveseventy. The latter, ridden by Daisuke Fukumoto for Barbara Minshall, had things all her own way throughout the 1 1/16 miles and jockey David Moran on the Kevin Attard-trained ‘Fab’ had to get to work in the stretch. Once Moran angled out Fashionably Fab into the late stages of the race, his filly joined the leader and the pair ding-donged to the wire.
Fashionably Fab won it by a nose in 1:45 over a slow Tapeta surface.
More than 20 people crammed the winner’s circle with Fashionably Fab after the race and it was her 10th win in 17 career races. She has blossomed nicely for Attard – yet another successful project for one of the year’s top trainers – graduating from Ontario sired races in 2023 to winning graded stakes this year.
The La Prevoyante win plus her Ontario Matron Stakes (G3) and Belle Mahone Stakes (G3) wins gives her a big chance to be voted Canada’s Champion Older Mare Main Track for 2024.
Dom Romeo and family’s Terra Racing Stables, one of the few stables remaining from the heydays of racing in the ’80s and ’90s, continues to run a successful boutique breeding and racing operation. It has seven wins this season (does not include any partnerships) and the family also races the undefeated two-year-old Little Red Domi.
There were many crowded winner’s circles on the second-to-last day of the 2024 Woodbine season. Mary Self came up from Florida to join her father Zeljko Krcmar and watch her mare MAKE NO MISTAKE win her 15th career race in her 60th start in race 7, an optional claiming event. The eight-year-old mare by Raison d’Etat. bred by Calumet Farms, will now be retired to the breeding shed.
Owned KEVIN MCKINLAY was surrounded by a large crowd when his homebred SILENT DIVA, trained by Tino Attard, won her maiden in the 11th race with Sahin Civaci up. The Silent Name (Jpn) filly was making her 12th career and was adding blinkers. McKinlay owns Hidden Springs Farm in Zephyr, ON.
Trainer RICHIE MORDEN sent out his super claim GIVE ME THE BOOTS to win race 10 on Saturday to bring his stable to 11 wins for the year, matching his previous best from 2011. Morden claimed Give Me the Boots for $10,000 and has won three races with the daughter of Reload who Rodolfo Pena owns. Pena has five wins with his horses this year, a career season.
Woodbine hosts day 127 of the season on Sunday with 13 races including the $100,000 Steady Growth Stakes. Visitors should be aware that due to a suspension Woodbine received of its alcohol license, there will not be any alcohol service at the track or the casino Sunday or Monday.
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